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The Christmas story has a lesson for us today, because sometimes you and I make the mistake of thinking that only the “right” things or comfortable things are part of God’s design. A good job, robust health, close friends, a comfortable house, money in a savings account—all give us the impression that we must be doing something “right.” <\/span><\/p>\n Then, when the inconvenience or discomfort or hardship hits, we wonder what ” went wrong.”\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Maybe nothing went wrong. Maybe we simply need to realize that our most unpleasant circumstances, much like Mary’s and Joseph’s, often have a way of becoming a beautiful portion of God’s magnificent design.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/spb_text_block]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [spb_text_block animation=”none” animation_delay=”0″ simplified_controls=”yes” custom_css_percentage=”no” padding_vertical=”0″ padding_horizontal=”0″ margin_vertical=”0″ custom_css=”margin-top: 0px;margin-bottom: 0px;” border_size=”0″ border_styling_global=”default” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”] The Christmas story has a lesson for us today, because sometimes you and I make the mistake of thinking that only the “right” things or comfortable things are part of God’s design. A good job, robust health, close friends, a comfortable house, money in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pastors-word-for-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seekerschapel.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}